magnifying glass
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magnifying glass
noun magnifying glasses
- An instrument made of convex glass, used to magnify. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
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noun instrument
| Español | lupa |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 돋보기 dotbogi, 확대경 hwakdaegyeong, 루페 rupe |
| 日本語 | 虫眼鏡 mushimegane, 拡大鏡 kakudaikyō, ルーペ rūpe |
| 中文 | 放大鏡 /放大镜 fàngdàjìng |
| हिन्दी | आवर्धक लेन्स āvardhak lens |
| Kiswahili | kioo cha kukuza |
| Português | lupa, lente de aumento |
| Français | loupe, verre grossissant |
| Deutsch | Lupe, Vergrößerungsglas |
| Italiano | lente d'ingrandimento |
| Română | lupă |
| Русский | лу́па lúpa, увеличи́тельное стекло́ uveličítelʹnoje stekló |
| Tiếng Việt | kính lúp, kiếng lúp |
| العربية | عَدَسَةٌ مُكَبِّرَة ʕadasatun mukabbira |
| עברית | זְכוּכִית מַגְדֶּלֶת zkhukhít magdélet |
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title = {magnifying glass},
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